Qui Parle

Qui Parle is dedicated to publishing scholarship that furthers critical thinking in the humanities and social sciences. Since 1986, the journal has published provocative work in literary criticism, visual arts, critical theory, and Continental philosophy, allowing it to take on questions of language and textuality, subjectivity and subjectivation, aesthetics, gender, and queer studies. Today, expanding its horizons to include scholarship in the “human sciences” broadly construed, Qui Parle increasingly publishes work in fields such as anthropology, sociology, and science studies. The editorial board sees this as an important complement to the journal’s continued commitment to arts, literature, and philosophy, bringing new vantage points to questions that have also become more and more exigent within those disciplinary formations—questions, in particular, having to do with cultural alterity; media and modernity; decolonization; the philosophy and anthropology of science; critical discourse in contexts other than Europe and Anglo-America; and the study of secularity and religion.

The journal’s mission has always been, in some sense, an attempt to think through the terms and implications of its title, “who speaks.” This unanswerable question suggests the constant obligation faced by a properly critical project: to interrogate and unsettle the discursive positions through which inquiry is conducted. To this end, Qui Parle aims not only to foster interdisciplinary dialogue but also to introduce hitherto under-examined analytic modes and underrepresented critical voices.

Editor
Peter Skafish (Anthropology)

Managing Editor
Alex Benson (English)

Editorial Board
Saleem Al-Bahlohly (Anthropology)
Katrina Dodson (Comparative Literature)
Anastasia Kayiatos (Slavic Languages & Literatures)
Marcelle Maese-Cohen (English)
Teresa K-Sue Park (Rhetoric)
Simon Porzak (Rhetoric)
Shaul Setter (Comparative Literature)
Allen Young (Spanish & Portuguese)